Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found its man in Thomas J. Reddin, 50, a genial giant of a career...
Died. Henry F. Schricker, 83, Indiana Democratic politician, the only man to serve two terms (1941-45 and 1949-53) as his state's Governor, the genial backslapping son of an immigrant Bavarian storekeeper who was known as "the man who never made anyone mad," nevertheless had enough iron to clean up his state's inefficient tax-collection and welfare systems; of a heart attack; in Knox...
...Kill Uncle. "You're a charming child, Barnaby," says dear old Uncle as he smiles (or is he merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...
...minded monsler who is only loo happy to kick a dog if a kick is what the dog really wants. Al 58 This magnificent crum-bum comic looks like King Kong after 30 years of marriage to Fay Wray, and when he opens his mouth, he sounds like that genial gorilla gargling streetcars...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...